Curated by Natasha Schlesinger

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” — Twyla Tharp

Summer months traditionally invite travel and exploration, experimentation and letting go of rigid structures.  But the wanderlust that seems to take over like a magic spell doesn’t need to take on a physical form.  Is there such a thing as art wanderlust? Can art serve as a portal into other and unexplored worlds? Can we escape and travel along with artists to see what lies beyond the scope of our physical space?

Let’s Escape the Ordinary invites us to step outside the mundane and the ordinary through the artistic portal into landscapes and spaces of dreams, possibilities and the extraordinary. 

Featured art works  in Let’s Escape the Ordinary range in materials, processes and concepts yet the artists here all follow down a path to create art that in the words of Pablo Picasso “…washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”

Megan Gabrielle Harris, a New York based painter, working at the intersection of memory, escapism, and self-discovery. Her paintings place Black feminine figures at their center, serene and contemplative amid lush, surrealist landscapes.